Proposal: Closing the Ansible Network Slack instance

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Hi folks

Following on from Proposal: Consolidating Ansible discussion platforms, we are considering what to do with the Ansible Network Slack instance (which you’ve likely never heard of).

As the Forum has critical mass of people, and the Ansible Network slack instance is very quiet, we are proposing archiving the Slack instance, and bring everybody to network part of the Forum

Poll

  • Never heard of Ansible Networks Slack instance
  • Heard of it, but haven’t used it
  • Used to use it, don’t anymore
  • I still use it, but I’m OK with your closing it
  • I still use it, keep it
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What do you think

The Slack and Forum is here for our Community, so please do let us know what you think

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@network-wg @SteeringCommittee new vote on future it the Ansible Network Slack instance.
Thanks in advance for your vote and any ideas how we can better support Network Automation.

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The last message in the general channels in the Ansible Network Slack channel was in May, and hasn’t been answered.

There is more discussion in the devel channel, though that’s because that channel has a bridge with the Network Matrix channel.

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Hi
Never heatd of Ansible slack instance but it’s exactly what I was looking for…

Network Automation Forum and other Network communities are really active on slack and are very useful, maybe ansible network slack instance just lacks communication on it ?

What is the url to join ? It would certainly have more success with communication of this instance through other slack communities

But also having different place for the same purpose is not very good, we have to concentrate people on the same place… and nowadays slack seems more convenient

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Personally, I’m in favor of Forum (that has worked great so far), so +1 to closing the channel.
Fragmentation (esp. with ghost towns) is not good.

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I don’t want to vote since I’m neither active on Slack nor into networking. So the correct answer (“never heard of it”) might give a wrong impression.

That said, I think we should focus on the forum. Is this channel run by RedHat employees? I’m sorry if this is a stupid question, but since I’m not active on Slack I don’t know how it works.

I guess we can’t (and shouldn’t!) forbid people to open communication channels about Ansible on Slack, or reddit or serverfault or whatever. But we™ should focus on the forum, IMHO.

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Ansible Network Slack statistics

I’ve just pulled some stats from the Ansible Network Slack instance, since 1st Jan 2025

Where the communication is happening

  • 86% Direct Messages
  • 12% Private channels
  • 2% pubic channels

Activity

  • Logged in users 26-56/month
  • Users posting: 5-12/month

This is a fragmented community, away from the rest of Ansible. I’m suprised to see that DMs (Direct Messages) are 86% of this years traffic. It’s good that people can directly message, though nobody else benefits from that discussion.